Can anyone identify this painting for me?

[CandlesOnTheHearth]

I saw a print of it in someone's house many years ago and only remembered it recently but I can't identify it.

The original is, I believe, oil. From memory, it has a dark and 'stormy' background and a naked, pale skinned woman with long, dark, wavy (?) hair having emerged from the sea/lake/body of water. Her look is quite intense - sultry maybe. Her head is slightly bowed down and her eyes are looking up towards the viewer.

Any ideas?

I have the name Salome in my head - I seem to associate it with the painting.

Google hasn't been able to help. Can MN?

Thanks

It couldn't be Birth of Venus by Botticelli, could it? Doesn't exactly match but I always get details wrong when I try to remember paintings.

Roughly what kind of period?

Sounds a bit like the birth of Venus - but you didn't mention a shell, so maybe not?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus

Tretchikoff? J H Lynch?

No, quite possibly the opposite of the Birth of Venus!

Sorry, no idea of the period and not knowledgeable enough to be able to recognise it.

The whole painting was dark. I have given all the details i can remember

Gah, so annoying!

Soola no, neither if those. But thanks.

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Madonna by Edvard Munch?

That’s made me think of paintings by Moreau. Is it that sort of style?

When you say the opposite, what do you mean?

Ophelia by Millais? Hylas and the Nymphs by Waterhouse?

Lady of the Lake?

I thought this might be it but no storminess...
i.etsystatic.com/17867470/c/1890/1500/0/7/il/9e363e/1629578135/il_340x270.1629578135_4dgm.jpg

When you say the opposite, what do you mean?

It's very dark. And sultry. There's a 'sexuality' about it.

The woman is in the foreground and appears to have emerged from water. It's almost 'sinister'. There's nothing light or 'innocent' about it.

Yes, Lemon, more that Sort of style.

I think I know the one you mean and it’s pre-raphelite depiction of some classic scene..

You can see more here, that she's naked:
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It's by Joseph Henry Lynch, aka J H Lynch.

It's not Madonna by Munch but, I guess if he'd had to copy it at school, that wouldn't be too far from his interpretation!

She's curvy, naked, pale, with long dark hair. She is emerging from water and is looking up at the viewer almost 'seductively' from what I recall.

This one?

Definitely not that one, Shmoo

But thank you for looking!

Oops, you said pale....sorry!

No, chunkers.

But thanks. She's emerging fully naked from water. She's in the foreground as though walking towards the viewer.

Possibly pre-raphaelite in style. Certainly not 'modern' in style.

Ah I think it was Hylas and the nymphs I was thinking of

So frustrating! I wish I'd asked them now. I'd assumed it would have been easy to find again at some point!

If you knew it, it would be unmistakeable from my description (I think!!) There's not really a lot else to say about it.

Ah, no, not Hylas and the nymphs. Beautiful painting though!

Another Venus?

Seductress emerging from the sea sounds like Circe. Do you think you could have misheard Circe as Salome?